| 652James resided in Berwick and died there. It was his widow and not Sarah, the second wife of Daniel, as Captain Goodwin supposed, who was the "widow Sarah Goodwin" admitted to church in 1703, as Daniel was then alive. No children have been credited to this James by Captain Goodwin or in any records, but there are so many branches of the Goodwins of Maine which cannot trace to Daniel and the other children of Daniel are so thoroughly identified that the only possible explanation is that this James had several children. Certainly "Mary, daughter of Sarah Goodwin, baptized April 5, 1703"297, was this man's child. I have therefore taken the liberty of giving this man just the family he needed to help me out. He has been dead too long to object, and unless subsequent investigations make it appear that it was not necessary for him to have had so many children, I shall always think he should have had them. His failure to write down the facts concerning himself and family has been the cause of most of our woes. The NEHGR, Vol. 23 or 24, says "John Davis, of Bristol in Great Brittaine, and Mary Gooding, of Neckswamick, were married 23rd of October, 1718." I can find no other Mary of marrying age than the one baptized April 15, 1703, and so I dispose of her. |